On 07/02/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bryan Olson wrote: > > > So is consistency; it ain't Perl, thank Guido. > > consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. > > > Python now has, what, three built-in mutable collections types: > > lists, dictionaries, and sets. Dicts and sets both have a clear() > > method and lists do not. > > dicts and sets are mappings, and lists are not. mappings don't > support slicing. lists do. > > are you sure you know Python ?
Is it obvious to a newbie what the difference between mappings and "not-mappings", and is it obvious exactly what is and isn't a mapping? Should it be necessary to "know" python before it becomes easy to use? Ed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
